CHANCELLOR'S AWARDS COMPETITION
In anticipation of the forthcoming SUNY announcements on the 2006-2007
Series of Chancellor's Awards, we are proceeding now with the College's
notice and plans for the awards. Our local 2006-2007 SUNY Oneonta
Instructions and Guidelines have been updated with attached SUNY
Policies and Procedures from last year's 2005-2006 Award Series (no
changes, other than dates, are expected in the 2006-2007 SUNY Policies
and Procedures). Detailed Award announcements and nomination procedures
are available at Graduate Studies/Continuing Education, 135 Netzer
Administration Building. Nominations and summary presentations must be
submitted to Netzer 135 by 4:00 p.m. of the LOCAL DEADLINE OF TUESDAY,
JANUARY 16, 2007. The Chancellor's Awards Competition includes:
Excellence in Teaching (ET); Excellence in Librarianship (EL);
Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities (ESCA); Excellence in
Professional Service (EPS); Excellence in Faculty Service (EFS);
Distinguished Teaching Professorship (DTP); and Distinguished Service
Professorship (DSP). SUNY approves a very limited number of DTP and DSP
Awards (academic ranks above Professor). Thus, any individual interested
in DTP or DSP nominations should consult initially with Dr. Robert
Morrissey (x2545 voice mail) PRIOR to nomination actions.
COMMUNICATION ARTS HAS MOVED
The Communication Arts Department has now moved to IRC. The
Communication Arts department office is located in B-7 IRC and Dr. Dauria, Communication Arts Chair is located in
B-6 IRC. The current
telephone numbers remain the same as listed in the college telephone
directory.
ANTHROPOLOGIST WINS SIEGFRIED PRIZE
Congratulations to Renee Walker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, on
being awarded the 2006 Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for
Academic Excellence. Dr. Walker will deliver the annual Siegfried
Lecture, an address entitled “Dogs of New York: The Role of Dogs in
Human Culture,” based on her ongoing research on how dogs have played a
significant role in the lives of humans for approximately 14,000 years.
Dr. Walker’s talk will focus, in part, on the role of dogs in the lives
of ancient peoples of New York and how the relationship between dogs and
humans has not changed very much over the years. The lecture is
scheduled for Thursday, November 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center. A dessert reception precedes
the lecture at 7 p.m. As in years past, both the reception and the
lecture are free and open to the public. The Richard Siegfried Junior
Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence is awarded annually to a
non-tenured faculty member to recognize outstanding faculty achievement
outside the classroom. Thirty-seven students also will be recognized for
attaining a 3.9 or higher GPA in their first year as a full time
freshman or transfer student at Oneonta. This event and the student
awards presented are made possible by the generous gifts of College at
Oneonta Alumni to the 2006-2007 Alumni Annual Fund. Special
acknowledgment is given to Mrs. Alice Siegfried who has made a gift to
the College at Oneonta Foundation to fund the Richard Siegfried Junior
Faculty Prize.
CHANGE A LIFE, CHANGE A NEIGHBORHOOD, CHANGE THE WORLD!
You should all have received your 2006 SEFA/United Way packet in your
campus mailbox! Please be sure to open it, complete it and return it
right away. See the attached flyer to this issue of the Bulletin to see
what incentives are available to you when you donate. Thanks to everyone
who has sent their donation forms in. As of Wednesday, November 1 we
have already raised $3,337. Keep sending those donation forms in. That
is wonderful!! United Way- Strengthening Families in Delaware and Otsego
Counties. Steve Logan & Melissa Nicosia, this year’s campus campaign
co-chairs.
ARE YOU EATING FOR SUCCESS?
On Wednesday, November 15, a program with
Jennifer L. Bueche has been
scheduled. Please see information attached to this issue of the Bulletin.
THE FIRST ANNUAL EDUCATORS’ SHOWCASE
On Tuesday, November 14, The First Annual Educators’ Showcase will take
place at the Hunt College Union. Please see information
attached to this
issue of the Bulletin.
MAGIC AND MEDICINE
Magic & Medicine, observation on health in rural Cameroon by Abigail Amols, is schedule for Thursday, November 9. Please see information
attached to this issue of the Bulletin.
ONLY ONE MORE BULLETIN EDITION BEFORE THANKSGIVING RECESS
There is only one more edition of the Bulletin
to be published before
the Thanksgiving recess and that will be on Wednesday, November 15. The
deadline for items for this edition is noon on Thursday, November 9th.
If you have items for the November 29th edition, (first edition to be
published after recess), you must send your items no later than noon on
Thursday, November 16. Please be sure to plan accordingly! If you have
questions, contact Mona Hughes at x2490 or
hughesml@oneonta.edu
ADIRONDACK CHAIR WORKSHOP CANCELLED
The Adirondack Chair Workshop that was scheduled for
Saturday, November
11, has been cancelled. If you have questions please phone
x3455.
CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK
The Red Dragon Bookstore is celebrating Children’s Book Week,
Monday - Thursday, November 13-16 from 10:00 - 10:45 a.m. and
11:00 - 11:45
a.m. Anyone wishing to join the celebration is welcome to stop by the
Bookstore at that time.
ATTENTION ALL NEW FACULTY: FINAL ORIENTATION SESSION SCHEDULED
New faculty and those who want a refresher are invited to participate in
the last orientation session of the year sponsored by the Division of
Academic Affairs: *Monday, November 13 at 4:00 p.m. in Bacon Hall:
“Funding, Writing and Other Services for Scholarly Activity and Faculty
Development/Development and You: Grants & Community.” Please
RSVP by
calling x2517.
MILNE LIBRARY RECESS HOURS
Milne Library will observe the following hours during the November Open
House and Recess:
Milne Lab will be closed during the recess.
OAS HOLIDAY SERVICE INTERRUPTION
ATM’s located in the Sbarro area, ID/Dining Card Office, and OAS Office
will NOT be accessible November 18-26, due to the building closure. If
you need to meet with a staff member in the ID/000 will close for
Thanksgiving break at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 17, and will reopen at
8:00 a.m. on Monday, November 27. The Shipping Room will also close at
6:00 p.m. on Friday, November 17, and will reopen at 9:00 a.m. on
November
27. Packages will be received at the Shipping Room’s Chestnut Street
location during this time. For assistance, please phone x3117 or
433-0545.
INVITATION TO FACULTY
Join Dr. Larkin, Dr. Merilan, Dr. Wagor, and other faculty colleagues
for discussion about recruitment strategies for hiring faculty from
underrepresented groups on Wednesday, November 15, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. in the
Hunt Union Butternut Valley Room (AKA faculty dining room). The
discussion is sponsored by the Employee Recruitment and Retention Task
Force (ERRTF) and the President’s Council on Diversity (PCOD).
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS ACTIVATED FOR ALUMNI UPDATES
The Office of Alumni Affairs has initiated an efficient way for faculty
and staff to communicate Alumni updates (changes of address, phone,
marriage or employment news.) Faculty and staff can share these updates
by e-mailing them to alumniupdate@oneonta.edu. In an on-going effort to
maintain current Alumni information, the Alumni database is updated
through a National Change of Address (NCOA) process 4 times per year
before each issue of Reflections mails. This has greatly improved our
ability to keep alumni in touch with what’s going on at the College. We
realize that alumni often communicate with their academic departments
providing information that we might not already have recorded so please
share alumni updates with us whenever you can. For information to be
used for accreditation, assessment surveys or other official College
business you may obtain a Database Information Request Form from the
Office of Alumni Affairs at x2526. Names, addresses and phone numbers
cannot be provided for unauthorized fundraising or private use.
Donna
Chase, Alumni Database Manager
LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP FOR A TUTOR THIS SEMESTER
Faculty members please remind your students that the last day to sign up
for a tutor this semester will be Friday, November 17. Before this date,
students can apply to get a tutor for both 100 and 200 level classes
from any computer by accessing our website at:
http://cade.oneonta.edu.
This site can only be accessed through Internet Explorer. Students then
only need to click on the “I Need a Tutor” link and follow the
instructions. Students can also visit our office located in 225 Alumni
or phone the Center for Academic Development and Enrichment (CADE)
office at x3010 if they have any other questions or problems.
BROWN BAG SEMINARS SCHEDULED FOR FALL SEMESTER
Brown Bag Seminars will take place in the Earth Sciences Department,
Physical Science Building, Room 228 at 12:00 Noon. You may bring your
lunch. The following programs have been scheduled for the remainder of
the semester:
Thursday, November 9 - Andrew Kozlowski, Glacial Geologist/Senior Scientist, NYS Geologic Survey, Title of talk: “Bring out your dead; a multi-method geophysical approach to delineate lost, missing and unmarked graves in central Pennsylvania.”
Thursday, November 16 - Brandon Taylor and Mark Tracy (Earth Science undergraduates), Title of talk: “Caves of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico: A Summer of Learning and Exploration.”
Thursday, November 30 - Student research at Bering Glacier, Alaska: Brandon Taylor-“Ice Cave Hydrology”; David Mase -“Lacunas: The Enigma” and Daniel Nierenberg-“Mapping Englacial Structures.”
Thursday, December 7 - Tentative: Graduate thesis defense.
UUP CONTRACT SURVEY: DEADLINE EXTENDED
The deadline for submitting your response to the UUP contract survey has
been extended to Friday, November 10. By now, all UUP members should
have received at their home, by U.S. mail, a paper copy of a survey to
assist union negotiators prepare for our next contact as well as an
explanatory cover letter. At the top of the cover letter, note your
individual online password, which is essential should you choose to
answer the survey on-line. Your responses and comments to the contract
survey are a critical step in the negotiations process. Use this survey
to make your priorities known. To complete the UUP contract survey
online, visit www.uupinfo.org. This will enable
you to access the electronic version of the survey. You will need to use
your personal password noted at the top on the cover letter that you
received to complete the online survey. The online survey is password
protected and secure. Your password is used for security purposes only.
There are no personal identifiers so your anonymity is assured. Please
do note share this password with anyone else. If you so choose, you can
respond to the paper copy of the
contract survey that you received in the mail rather than do the survey
online. If you do the paper copy version of the survey, use the
enclosed, prepaid envelope that accompanied the survey. To allow for
electronic scanning, keep the pages in order, avoid stray marks, and
fill in bubble completely. To avoid damage, do not fold, staple, or
paperclip pages. The survey must be received by UUP no latter than
Friday, November 10.
NOVEMBER RECESS HOURS FOR HUNT UNION, OAS AND SODEXHO
The hours of operation for Hunt College Union during the November break
are: Friday, November 17 from 8:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m.; Saturday, November 18
from 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Sunday, November 19 - Sunday, November 26, the
Hunt College Union is closed for public access; Monday, November 27,
reopen standard hours. Between Monday, November 20th and Wednesday
November 23rd persons needing to reach OAS (x3352) and
Sodexho (x2449),
should call ahead. Thank you.
JAVA, JAVA AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES SERIES - TODAY
Java, Java and Other Technologies Series will offer
Mindleaders Training
on today, Wednesday, November 8 from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the
TLTC. Need
to brush up on your technology skills but don't have the time to take a
class or workshop. Then MindLeaders might be for you. SUNY-Oneonta
subscribes to Mindleaders and through this program offers hundreds of
online technology based training courses. This JJOT session will
highlight Mindleaders and their offerings. Come see what is possible.
For more information on contact Deb McClenon in the TLTC at
x2871.
FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES CONTINUES - TODAY
Hua Zhong will make the third
presentation of the Fall 2006 Economics and Business Division Faculty
Seminar Series. The title of Dr. Zhong’s
presentation is Algorithms for Minimizing the Packing Cost of Industry
Distribution Centers. The presentation is open to faculty, students, and
the public. It will be held at 4:00 p.m., today, Wednesday, November 8, in
Schumacher 209.
INTERNATIONAL PIANIST TO PERFORM - NOVEMBER 9
Daniel Segall, a British pianist who won first prize in the Dorothy
MacKenzie Artist Recognition Awards at the 2005 International Keyboard
Institute and Festival in New York, will offer a concert on Thursday,
November 9, at 8:00 p.m. in 210 Fine Arts. Segall will perform works by
Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt. Admission to the event is
complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.
Daniel Segall was born in 1984 and improvised at the piano from an early
age. He began his studies in 1991 with Eileen Rowe, giving his first
recital in 1996. Educated at St. Paul's School in London, he also
attended Pro Corda, then the National School for Young Chamber
Musicians. In 2001, Segall was awarded a scholarship to attend the
Perlman Music Program, where he studied piano with Miyoko Lotto and
chamber music with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman. He was invited
back to participate in a joint program with the Shanghai Conservatory of
Music in China. He has since worked with Noretta Conci in London and is
currently a graduate scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music
in New York, where he studies with Jerome Rose. Segall has made concerto
appearances with the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra at the Purcell
Room and St Martin-in-the-Fields, as well as playing an all-Beethoven
chamber music program with its principal members at the Purcell Room. In
2003, he performed in Memphis as part of the "Artists Ascending" series.
He has performed regularly at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, both as
soloist and chamber musician, giving the final concert of their 2003-04
season. He has participated in master classes with Yefim Bronfman,
Richard Goode, Leslie Howard, Alicia De Larrocha, Menahem Pressler, and
Fou T'song. Segall's recent engagements include performances at the
Hungarian and French Consulates in New York as part of the "Birth of
Romanticism" festival, at Steinway Hall in both London and New York, and
at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany. During the
summer of 2005, he was featured both as soloist and chamber musician at
the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, where he was invited to
return this year. For the last four summers, he has attended the
International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York. During his
visit, Segall will also participate in music classes with our students.
More information is available from the Music Department at x3415 and
attached to this issue of the Bulletin.
DECEMBER “ON CAMPUS" INFORMATION DUE - NOVEMBER 10
Please notify the Community Relations Office with any information to be
listed in the December “On Campus" public events calendar. Please send
information to Netzer 301, thomasrm@oneonta.edu, or phone
x2748 by 12
noon on Friday, November 10.
ONE-MAN PLAY: "WAKE OF THE ESSEX" - NOVEMBER 10
Veteran Broadway actor Robert Manzari will bring his one-man play "Wake
of the Essex" to the Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts on Friday, November 10,
at 7:00 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door at a cost of $3 for
general admission or free with SUNY-Oneonta identification card. Members
of the community are invited to attend. Manzari plays the role of George
Pollard, the captain of a Nantucket whaling vessel that was attacked and
sunk by a whale in the south Pacific in 1819. The true story inspired
Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick." After months at sea, a handful of
survivors were rescued following unspeakable hardships such as shark
attacks, starvation, and cannibalism. In 1846, Herman Melville, sailing
aboard the whale-ship Acushnet, met the son of Owen Chase, the first
mate of the Essex. Chase's son gave Melville a copy of his father's
account of the incident, which Melville later used as a source for
"Moby-Dick." The "Wake of the Essex" follows the psychological journey
of the captain after the wreck and his struggle with guilt and survival.
Robert Manzari has appeared in numerous plays in New York City and in
regional theaters. He has brought the "Wake of the Essex" to theaters in
New York, including the Greenwich Street Theater and the South Street
Seaport as well as several regional theaters. The author of the play,
Lou Rogers, is a direct descendant of Captain George Pollard. The
performance of the "Wake of the Essex" is sponsored by the SUNY-Oneonta
Public Events Committee, English Department, and "Art & Scope." More
information is available from Daniel Payne of the English Department at
x3442.
CONCERT TO FEATURE WORLD MUSIC AND IMPROVISATION - NOVEMBER 13
The College will host "Globetrotting II," a concert of world music and
improvisation, in the Hamblin Arena Theater, Fine Arts at 8:00
p.m. on
Monday, November 13. Part of the Hewitt Pantaleoni Memorial Concert
Series, the concert will feature musicians Steve Gorn on the bansuri
(North Indian bamboo flute), clarinet, and soprano saxophone; John Davey
playing double-bass and acoustic bass guitar; and Brian Melick on
percussion. Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of the
community are invited to attend. The "Globetrotting" concert is
supported by the SUNY-Oneonta Public Events Committee, Music Department,
Catskill Conservatory and The Helena and Guido Pantaleoni Foundation.
More information is available from the Music Department at x3415.
CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS FINAL FALL PROGRAM - NOVEMBER 14
The Hewitt Pantaleoni Memorial Concert Series will present its final
program for the fall term on Tuesday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. in
Sanford
Auditorium (IRC, LH#3). The hour-long concert will feature new music for
clarinets and piano by the Oneida County-based composer Edward Marcus. A
nationally known performer on the clarinet, Marcus has recently turned
to composing, primarily concentrating on works for that instrument,
while continuing his performance career with such groups as the Catskill
and Utica Symphony Orchestras. His wife, Penny Ward Marcus, who is also
a well-known clarinetist, will perform, and they will be joined by
clarinetist and SUNY-Oneonta faculty member Robin Seletsky, who is
principal clarinetist of the Catskill and Binghamton Symphonies and the
Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, as well as being the founder and director
of the Catskill Klezmorum. Ms. Seletsky and the two Marcuses were
graduate-school classmates at the New England Conservatory more than two
decades ago, and they became re-aquainted personally and musically when
the Marcuses recently moved to the Utica area. The ensemble will be
rounded out by pianist Tina Toglia, a former SUNY-Oneonta faculty member
who is now living in the Mohawk Valley and teaching at Hamilton College.
In addition to being part of the Pantaleoni Series, which is produced by
Carleton Clay, of the music department, the program is also part of the
SUNY-Oneonta New Music Series, and is co-produced by fellow music
department faculty member Orlando Legname. The entire series is under
the co-sponsorship of the Music Department and the Catskill Conservatory
and is free and open to all, with neither tickets nor reservations being
necessary.
FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES - NOVEMBER 15
Christine Harrington will make the forth presentation of the Fall 2006
Economics and Business Division Faculty Seminar Series. The title of
Professor Harrington’s presentation is Can Mean Reversion in Earnings
Explain Mean Reversion in Stock Returns? It will be held at 4:00 p.m. on
Wednesday, November 15, in Schumacher 209. The presentation is open to
faculty, students, and the public.
GALLERY FEATURES ART BY KIM DEITCH THROUGH - DECEMBER 16
An exhibit entitled Pictorama by comics artist and graphic novelist
Kim Deitch will be display in the Fine Arts Gallery through
Saturday,
December 16. Admission to all of the events is complimentary, and
members of the community are invited to attend. Kim Deitch began his
career in 1967, creating comics for the East Village Other in New York
City, and has grown to become one today's top alternative comics
artists. Deitch's exhibition will feature his original lithographs,
study drawings, and line art that was ultimately published in comic
books and novels. Also on display will be his entire story drawings and
development studies for a unique documentary called Ready to Die, an
interview with death-row inmate Ronald Fitzgerald. Other works in the
show will include Deitch's recent illustrations for Alice's Adventures
Under Ground by Lewis Carroll and two full-length drawing stories
produced for Nickelodeon Magazine. The Gallery is open Monday - Friday
from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. when classes are in session. More information
about the exhibit or gallery is available from Tim Sheesley, Director of
the Fine Arts Gallery, at x2445.
EQUIPMENT TRADE-IN TO APPLE COMPUTERS
Apple Computers now accepts used computers, monitors etc. of any brand
via their “Trade-in and Recycling Program for Education.” To learn more,
please review the attached link
http://www.apple.com/education/shop/recycle/faq.html
or contact the following Apple representatives listed below:
As with any equipment being traded-in, you must list identifying information about the trade-in equipment, include the manufacturer’s serial number and SUNY Oneonta decal number, on the Purchase Requisition so the trade-in can be removed from the College’s equipment inventory. You must also have sensitive information removed from the computer prior to trade-in by contacting Mark English at x3316 or email englishme@oneonta.edu. For further information, please contact Janet Frankl at x3227 or email frankljl@oneonta.edu.
KENNETH TAKEUCHI KEYNOTE DVD AVAILABLE
A DVD recording of Dr. Kenneth Takeuchi’s keynote address, "The art of
lecturing: information, organization, motivation, learning," from the
3rd Annual Celebration of Teaching is available for checkout from the
IRC video library. For more information, please contact Donna Baker in
IRC Room 104 or at x3314.
Last day for Faculty to turn in grades for previously assigned incomplete/pending grades.
Classes resume. Last day to withdraw from the College. After this date students must complete all coursework.
Internship Workshop
3:00 p.m., IRC, LH#7. Please
announce to students. Several representatives will offer valuable
information on Internships. Sponsored by EOP
“Sketchy Figurez In The Back Room”
New
Gallery, 165 Fine Arts, Monday - Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. The student
figure-drawing exhibition features the work of Aaron Albright, Sean
O’Hara and Daniel Tarnowski.
Academic Excellence Technology Award
Deadline
Teaching faculty invited to submit applications. Successful
candidate will receive $500/department of successful candidate
will receive $1,000. For details see website
http://employees.oneonta.edu/greenbjb/ia.
Contact Jim Greenberg at x2701 or
greenbjb@oneonta.edu.
Film Series on Africa
6:30 p.m., CME, Lee Hall.
Everyone's Child, a drama about AIDS orphans directed by Tsitsi
Dangarembga of Zimbabwe. More information available from the CME
at x2663.
Giving Tree Gift Return
Gifts for the children of the Migrant Tutorial Outreach Program
must be returned between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.,
Hunt College Union, Waterfront Café. If you foresee any problem
providing your gift at that time, contact Ann or Stephanie
before December 6th. Please join us to share in the generosity
of our college community. Refreshments compliments of OAS. For
information contact Ann Pasternak at x2513 or
Stephanie Cody-Lutz at x2880.
Yuletide Festival
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., College Camp Lodge and Grounds. For
information contact Snapper Petta at x3455,
or visit us at http://collegecamp.oneonta.edu.
Congratulations to Bill Harcleroad, Director of Campus Activities, Hunt College Union for receiving the 2006 National Association of Campus Activities (NACA) Mid-Atlantic Outstanding Student Activities Professional Award. The award was presented to Bill at the regional conference on October 26-29, 2006 in Lancaster, PA. The award recognizes his service and commitment to the local campus, students and in the field of student activities. His nominations included a letter from the students of the College Unions Activities Council (CUAC). Mr. Harcleroad has made significant contributions to the field as a member of NACA through his service on the Mid Atlantic Leadership Team, as the Mid Atlantic Co-op Buying Coordinator and his active participation at regional and national conferences. He has served in prominent positions with the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) as outgoing Regional Director, Regional conference host and as former College Bowl coordinator and host. ALSO During the Mid Atlantic NACA Conference Bill Harcleroad and Lorin Levins, Instructional Support Associate, Graphic Design & Publications were also recognized by earning the NACA Mid Atlantic Graphic Arts Competition Award in the Professionally Designed, One Color category for the 2006 “Rebekka Armstrong” event poster.
Congratulations to Phi Beta Sigma, on being the first historically African-American fraternity at the College. To celebrate its newly issued charter, a reception was held on Sunday, November 5 in the Waterfront Café, Hunt Union. The fraternity chapter is advised by staff members Alex Hazard of the Educational Opportunity Program and James Poole of Residence Life and Housing. The national Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1914 by three young African-American male students. The founders--A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I. Brown--wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and service. Their commitment to returning their skills to the communities from which they had come is mirrored in the fraternity's motto: "Culture For Service and Service For Humanity."
Joseph Chiang and Harry Pence, Chemistry and Biochemistry, were invited to chair a session of “ Nanochemistry in the Undergraduate Curriculum” at the 34th Northeastern American Chemical Society meeting held in Binghamton, NY from October 5 to 7, 2006. Joseph Chiang also presented a paper entitled “ Two Approaches to Undergraduate Nanochemistry Curriculum” at the meeting.
James Ebert, Earth Sciences, was a co-author on two presentations at the annual conference of the Geological Society of America (Philadelphia, PA) in addition to the two presentations, which were reported in the September 27 issue of the Bulletin. These presentations were “Conodont Biostratigraphy, Delta C13 Chemostratigraphy, and Recognition of the Silurian/Devonian Boundary in the Appalachian Basin at Cherry Valley, New York” with co-authors Mark Kleffner, Ohio State University at Lima, James Barrick, Texas Tech University, and Damon Matteson, SUNY-Oneonta and “New York Landscape Regions in Google Earth: A Comprehensive Teaching Tool” with co-authors Eric Cohen (Westhampton Beach High School), Steve Kluge and Drew Patrick (both of Fox Lane High School).
Donald R. Hill, Africana/Latino Studies and Anthropology, is co-author of a book and co-compiler of a ten CD set entitled West Indian Rhythm. The set has just been published by the Bear Family in Hamburg, Germany. The book contains approximately π million words and over 700 illustrations. It is the joint effort of a team of three historians, an anthropologist, and a linguist. The CDs include all the recordings of Creole music made in Trinidad between 1938 and 1940 – 264 titles in all, many of which were not released on phonograph record but were censored by the British colonial government. The book contains essays on the following topics: calypso; carnival; the songs in relationship to World War II; West Indian song styles, musical forms and instrumentation of the era (when the steelband was being developed); Guyanese music; biographies of the performers, musicians, and people mentioned in the songs; a glossary; and a complete set of lyrics (in English and English translation and in Creole English, Creole French, and Spanish, with isolated words in Lingala, Latin, Hindi, Urdu, Bhojpuri, and several other languages that were spoken in the region). All the lyrics are annotated and set in the era and in the culture. The lyrics to the vernacular songs on the CDs are topical. Based on these lyrics and on other primary sources from the era, this volume contains the most complete exegesis ever attempted of the life and times of ordinary people from the Eastern Caribbean and Guyana at the opening of World War II – from their point of view as British colonials and as expressed in their songs.
Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs and Cindy Lassonde, Education Division, presented a workshop at the 56th Annual Conference of the New York State English Council (NYSEC) held at the Desmond Hotel in Albany, New York on October 18-20, 2006. Joined by Shawn Foster, a SUNY-Oneonta Childhood Education graduate; Mary Diemer, a cooperating teacher of the Childhood Education program; and Rick Kugler, 9-12 ELA instructor from Broome-Tioga BOCES. Panelists offered their perspectives on “Preparing and Supporting New Teachers: A Panel Discussion.” The purpose of this panel discussion was to examine from various viewpoints what it takes to prepare and support new teachers entering schools as teachers of English and literacy. Understanding what novice teachers need to be successful and effective in the classroom helps educators reflect upon the programs and instruction we offer our undergraduates and graduates, the interaction we recruit and foster among teaching colleagues, and the ways our institutions promote growth and professional development.
William Vining, Chemistry and Biochemistry, chaired a session on “Undergraduate Chemical Education” at the 34th Northeastern American Chemical Society meeting held in Binghamton, NY from October 5 to 7, 2006.
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